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palaeonavix.bsky.social
Left illustration: giraffe.jumae (plio-pleistocene) compared with modern giraffe species (right illustration) / around 15 years ago / tempera

#paleontology #giraffe #africa #ScienceForAll #EarthHistory
Left illustration: giraffe.jumae (plio-pleistocene) compared with modern giraffe species (right illustration) colours used: shades of brown, shades of beige, black
June 6, 2026 at 6:08 PM
michaelemann.bsky.social
Our (Carrillo et al) new article in #PNAS: "Sensitivity of simulations of Plio–Pleistocene climate with the CLIMBER-2 Earth System Model to details of the global carbon cycle"
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Sensitivity of simulations of Plio–Pleistocene climate with the CLIMBER-2 Earth System Model to details of the global carbon cycle | PNAS
The Earth system model CLIMBER-2 has been used in past work to successfully reproduce the glacial/interglacial cycles of the Plio–Pleistocene and t...
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June 2, 2025 at 8:47 PM
astrapionte.bsky.social
How’s this for size? I’d like to introduce you to Titanotylopus nebraskensis, a giant camel known from Plio-Pleistocene Nebraska in North America 🇺🇸.
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#paleoart #art #megafauna #animals
July 10, 2025 at 5:57 AM
michaelemann.bsky.social
"Path-dependence of the Plio–Pleistocene glacial/interglacial cycles" | Our new PNASNews article on the surprising role of hysteresis in the climate trajectory of the past few million years, including mid-Pleistocene onset of the ~100 kyr sawtooch cycle

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Path-dependence of the Plio–Pleistocene glacial/interglacial cycles | PNAS
We find strong path dependence in the evolution of the Plio–Pleistocene glaciations using CLIMBER-2 Earth System Model simulations from the mid-Pli...
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June 17, 2024 at 8:04 PM
icarehb.bsky.social
Postdoc in Geochronology / Plio-Pleistocene Geology
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July 7, 2025 at 3:32 PM
ranjeevlikesclams.bsky.social
Happy #FossilFriday
Here is a beautiful #Plio-Pleistocene #chione from #Tampa Florida, with a awesome #polydorid boring
#ichnology
#Caulostrepsis
#annelidae
July 17, 2026 at 3:09 AM
andrejpaleo.bsky.social
The paleobiogeographical history of giraffes is just crazy:
"an Afro- Asian early radiation, Miocene dispersal pulses into Eurasia, and a progressive Plio-Pleistocene contraction culminating in the restriction of the clade to Africa."
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
🧪⚒️ #Paleobio #Geology #EvoBio
MCT and biogeographical reconstruction employing BAYAREA + J model.
June 14, 2026 at 7:32 PM
andrejpaleo.bsky.social
Very interesting article on the maro- and micro- evolutionary interplay in extinction mechanisms of the gastropods during the Plio-Pleistocene extinction event in the western Atlantic.
by @bruceslieberman.bsky.social and colleagues.
🧪 #EvoBio #Paleobio #Macroecology
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Body size extinction selectivity in different marine gastropod clades during Plio-Pleistocene extinction event in the west Atlantic.
December 29, 2024 at 10:06 AM
bou.org.uk
A new species of Lovebird (Aves, Psittaculidae, Agapornis) from the Plio-Pleistocene of the Cradle of Humankind (Gauteng, South Africa) | www.sciencedirect.co... | Geobios | #ornithology #palaeoecology 🪶
August 1, 2025 at 5:59 PM
ranjeevlikesclams.bsky.social
Happy #FossilFriday
Here is a beautiful fossil venerid #Lirophora from the Plio-Pleistocene of #Florida
#veneridae
July 2, 2026 at 8:10 PM
villesinkkonen.bsky.social
I wonder quite of then what the plio pleistocene hominin fauna was like in the rest of the unsampled africa. What if there were like highland paranthropus like there are highland gorillas. Tickles my inagination.
August 1, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Fundamentally unchanged northwestern African rainfall regimes across the Plio-Pleistocene transition | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Fundamentally unchanged northwestern African rainfall regimes across the Plio-Pleistocene transition
The northern African summer monsoon was unaffected by global cooling at the end of the Pliocene 3 million years ago.
www.science.org
June 22, 2025 at 10:31 AM
brandontbishop.bsky.social
These might look like rhino-y things, but they're a completely unique type of mammal that developed while South America was an island continent: the Notoungulates.

These guys fared poorly once South America joined to North America in the Plio-Pleistocene before finally disappearing 12,000 years ago
lacerdajulio.bsky.social Julio the Artist @lacerdajulio.bsky.social · 1d
Some more lovely weirdos! Toxodon & Mixotoxodon.

#SciArt #artbyjulio
A simple infographic showing a grayish, sparse-haired Mixotoxodon and a more tan, slightly hairier Toxodon against a solid background, with a human silhouette for scale. Each animal has a graphic besides it showing an estimated range, and its scientific name below it.
October 1, 2026 at 7:15 PM
ausarchosaur.bsky.social
Fossils of the extant but endangered tropical tree species Dryobalanops rappa are now known from the Plio-Pleistocene of Brunei.

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May 14, 2025 at 5:59 PM
ranjeevlikesclams.bsky.social
Happy #FossilFriday
Checkout these beautiful fossil #cone snails from the #Plio-Pleistocene of #Florida
#conidae
#fossilsofflorida
June 20, 2025 at 9:54 AM
bryceotopes.bsky.social
New Science Advances paper on Plio-Pleistocene northern African hydroclimate! Tl;dr the wet summer monsoon = summer insolation & the dry winter monsoon = global ice volume

Paper here (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...), Brown press release here (www.brown.edu/news/2025-06...)
Fundamentally unchanged northwestern African rainfall regimes across the Plio-Pleistocene transition
The northern African summer monsoon was unaffected by global cooling at the end of the Pliocene 3 million years ago.
www.science.org
June 23, 2025 at 10:32 PM
bryantfurlow.bsky.social
Photo if clouds over New Mexico’s lower Rio Puerco Plio-Pleistocene gravel bars scarp.
September 5, 2025 at 4:13 PM
speleojacek.bsky.social
I have never seen the #thrusttuesday hashtag before, but I have extraordinary photos from my visit to Chile on PATAdays in October I wanted to share, so here it is
Mesozoic volcanic rocks overthrust on the Plio-Pleistocene beach facies
Playa La Ballenera in Iquique
November 26, 2024 at 9:23 AM
arctomet.bsky.social
New Plio-Pleistocene fossils from the eastern Pacific shed light on the early evolution of otariids (Carnivora: Pinnipedia) in the Southern Hemisphere url: academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/a...
New Plio-Pleistocene fossils from the eastern Pacific shed light on the early evolution of otariids (Carnivora: Pinnipedia) in the Southern Hemisphere
Abstract. Colonization of the Southern Hemisphere by sea lions and fur seals (Otariidae) represents a crucial yet poorly understood chapter in pinniped evo
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January 19, 2026 at 7:45 PM
arctomet.bsky.social
Mongle, C.S., Orr, C.M., Tocheri, M.W. et al. New fossils reveal the hand of Paranthropus boisei. Nature (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s415...
New fossils reveal the hand of Paranthropus boisei - Nature
Analyses of newly discovered hand and foot bones of a Paranthropus boisei specimen provide insight into possible tool use and other palaeobiology characteristics among Plio-Pleistocene hominin species...
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October 16, 2025 at 4:28 PM
gulop1th3cuz.bsky.social
Paradolichopithecus arvernensis

A species of macaque that lived in Plio-Pleistocene Europe and may have had almost Hominin-like feet.
October 24, 2024 at 9:14 PM
michaelemann.bsky.social
"Uncovering the drivers of a million-year-old glacial transition" | @uofpenn.bsky.social press release on our (Carrillo et al) new PNAS News article exploring the surprising path-dependence of the Plio-Pleistocene glacial/interglacial cycles:

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Uncovering the drivers of a million-year-old glacial transition | Penn Today
Driving a climate model forward and backward in time, Mann Research Group scientists found strong path dependence in the evolution of Plio-Pleistocene glaciations.
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June 24, 2024 at 10:12 PM
nature.com
Nature research paper: Global ocean heat content over the past 3 million years

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Global ocean heat content over the past 3 million years - Nature
Estimates of mean ocean temperature based on noble gas (Xe/Kr) measurements in shallow ice cores from the Allan Hills blue ice area, Antarctica, indicate enhanced cooling around the Plio-Pleistocene Transition and enhanced ice sheet growth around the time of the Mid-Pleistocene Transition.
go.nature.com
March 20, 2026 at 3:35 PM
arctomet.bsky.social
Shupinski AB, Craffey M, Smith FA, Lyons SK. Different mammals, same structure: co-occurrence structure across the Plio-Pleistocene transition. Paleobiology. Published online 2025:1-10. doi:10.1017/pab.2024.53
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Different mammals, same structure: co-occurrence structure across the Plio-Pleistocene transition | Paleobiology | Cambridge Core
Different mammals, same structure: co-occurrence structure across the Plio-Pleistocene transition
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March 16, 2025 at 5:24 PM
triloboii.bsky.social
#Cenozoicrewind2024 Meet Agapornis longipes!

#sciart #paleoart
Vector illustration of Agapornis longipes, a small extinct lovebird from early Pleistocene South Africa. The small parrot is standing on the ground, wings folded, with a seed in its beak. It is lime green with a dark neck, blue rump and a red and orange face. Text reads: Agapornis longipes. Marco Pavia, José Braga, Massimo Delfino et al. A new species of lovebird (Aves, Psittaculidae, Agapornis) the Plio-Pleistocene of the Cradle of Humankind (Gauteng, South Africa) Geobios Aug 9 2024
January 22, 2025 at 8:00 PM